You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

Am I no a bonny fighter?

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes