Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

My nostalgia is for the impossible.

We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.