The Highest, Most Varied And Lasting Pleasures

A Sense Of Humour Is The Only Divine Quality Of Man

...this Our World, Which Is So Real, With All Its Suns And Milky Ways Is-nothing.

Night Gives A Black Look To Everything, Whatever It May Be.

The First Forty Years Of Life Give Us The Text; The Next Thirty Supply The Commentary On It.

Virtue Is As Little To Be Acquired By Learning As Genius; Nay, The Idea Is Barren, And Is Only To Be Employed As An Instrument, In The Same Way As Genius In Respect To Art. It Would Be As Foolish To Expect That Our Moral And Ethical Systems Would Turn Out Virtuous, Noble, And Holy Beings, As That Our Aesthetic Systems Would Produce Poets, Painters, And Musicians.