Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.