As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.