In love as in art, good technique helps.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

While there's life, there's fear.

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.