Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.

To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.