I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

Wine is bottled poetry.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.