The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
Bad artists always admire each others work.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.