“History is the science of things which are not repeated.”
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.