Quote #2779
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane...
Quote #1658
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you’re busy...
Quote #3985
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike...
Quote #21645
He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.
Quote #3487
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Quote #117
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you...
Quote #553
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is...
Quote #15896
Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what...
Quote #5782
…for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that...
Quote #7913
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has...