Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all

The true object of all human life is play

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling