Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Art is good but it isn't the best.
When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.
Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.
All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.
I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
It's just so weird when an entire nation knows what you are going through.