The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
Man lives in a world of meaning.
There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.
Things explain each other, not themselves.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
I like that Barack got that job.
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
Security and safety were the reward of dullness.
(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise
I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.
Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
I've been shot at on numerous occasions.
We need people who will go, and stay until the end.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.
