Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."