Mar 282010
 

Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy gains admiration.

I approached the confines of death, and having trod on the threshold of Proserpine, I returned therefrom, being borne through all the elements. At midnight I saw the sun shining with its brilliant light; and I approached the presence of the Gods beneath, and the Gods of heaven, and stood near, and worshipped the

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

It is with life just as with swimming; that man is the most expert who is the most disengaged from all encumbrances.