A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance