Everything That Seems Imperishable Tends

So Long As I Know What's Boiling In My Pot I Don't Bother My Head About What's In Other People's.

The Fixity Of A Habit Is Generally In Direct Proportion To Its Absurdity.

I Wished To See Storms Only On Those Coasts Where They Raged With Most Violence.

Our Intellect Is Not The Most Subtle, The Most Powerful, The Most Appropriate, Instrument For Revealing The Truth. It Is Life That, Little By Little, Example By Example, Permits Us To See That What Is Most Important To Our Heart, Or To Our Mind, Is Learned Not By Reasoning But Through Other Agencies. Then It Is That The Intellect, Observing Their Superiority, Abdicates Its Control To Them Upon Reasoned Grounds And Agrees To Become Their Collaborator And Lackey.

A Sort Of Egotistical Self-evaluation Is Unavoidable In Those Joys In Which Erudition And Art Mingle And In Which Aesthetic Pleasure May Become More Acute, But Not Remain As Pure.