The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.