There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?