The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.