If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Never ask a bore a question.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

The body has a mind of its own.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.