Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.