In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
She lives the poetry she cannot write.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
One should absorb the color of life.