Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.