Great books do not spring from something accidental in the great men who wrote them. They are the effluence of their very core, the expression of the life itself of the authors.
Seven
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
Eight
One of the main obstacles to the cultivation of poetry in the average sensible man is an absurdly inflated notion of the ridiculous.
Nine
The crudest excitement of the imaginative faculty is to be preferred to a swinish preoccupation with the gross physical existence.
Ten
The brain is the diplomatist which arranges relations between our instinctive self and the universe, and it fulfils its mission when it provides for the maximum of freedom to the instincts with the minimum of friction.