The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Sanity is a madness put to good use.