He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.
There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.