Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.
Hugh Kingsmill
Friends are God's apology for relations.
friendship friends apology relations
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.
vision life renunciation
Tis Summer Time on Bredon, And now the farmers swear: The cattle rise and listen In valleys far and near, And blush at what they hear. But when the mists in autumn On Bredon top are thick, And happy hymns of farmers Go up from fold and rick, The cattle then are sick.
thetimes time
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
society
dreams man self
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.
extremes men self
The public mind a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.
mind the-public
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.
virtues success
What, still alive at twenty-two, A clean upstanding chap like you?
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