Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.

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

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.