Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.