No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor |
Nonsense and beauty have close connections. |
Nonsense and beauty have close connections. |
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. |
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. |
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. |
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. |
She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. |
She loved him with too clear a vision to fear his cloudiness. |
So Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough; there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that. |
So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism |
Some closing of the gates is inevitable after thirty, if the mind itself is to become a creative power. |
Some twenty years her senior, he preserved a gift that she supposed herself to have already lost--not youth's creative power, but its self-confidence and optimism. |
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. |
The best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly |