Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every post-Classical Author. Then they classified them by eras, the Augustans, the Victorians, etc., and now they classify them by decades, the writers of the '30's, '40's, etc. Very soon, it seems, they will be labeling authors, like automobiles, by the year.

I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

Composing mortals with immortal fire.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.