Great Throughts Treasury

"To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment."

"To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded."

"True solidarity is only possible among the solitary."

"True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed."

"We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons."

"When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done."

"When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears."

"When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!"

"You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done."

"You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies."

"You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made."