Life is an art not to be learned by observation. - George Santayana

The difficulty, after having the experience to symbolize, lies only in having enough imagination to suspend it in a thought; and further to give this thought such verbal expression that others may be able to decipher it, and to be stirred by it as by a wind of suggestion sweeping the whole forest of their memories.

The soul, too, has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

Whenever a nation is converted to Christianity, its Christianity, in practice, must be largely converted to paganism.