Everything Since Homer Has Improved, Except Poetry.

Men Are Ready To Suffer Anything From Others Or From Heaven Itself, Provided That, When It Comes To Words, They Are Untouched.

Of Men Eternally Dear! Happy Indeed If You Have Breathing-space From Pain: Blessed All The More If Death Should Heal You Of The Pain You Fear!

The Thought That Really Crushes Us Is The Thought Of The Futility Of Life Of Which Death Is The Visible Manifestation.

Men Seldom Act From A Correct Sense Of What May Be Harmful Or Useful To Them.

No One Is So Completely Disenchanted With The World, Or Knows It So Thoroughly, Or Is So Utterly Disgusted With It, That When It Begins To Smile Upon Him He Does Not Become Partially Reconciled To It.