“He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.”
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Enthusiasm moves the world.
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.