I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
I love and worship myself with a love which absorbs my love for the world.
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.
How insufficient is all wisdom without love.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
All romance is grounded on friendship.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
So he left the path for a short cut across a field. And the moon went with him.
The moon is the friendliest of the celestial bodies, after all, glowing warm and white and welcoming, like a friend who wants only to know that all of us are safe in our narrow worlds, our narrow yards, our narrow, well-considered lives. The moon worries. We may not know how we know that, but we know it all the same: that the moon watches, and the moon worries, and the moon will always love us, no matter what.
Make me feel good in the moontime.
I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.