Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
Full lasting is the song, though he, The singer, passes.
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
Caricature is rough truth.
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!