Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.