I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.
Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.