Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
The only peace is being out of earshot.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.
Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.