An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Of all the enemies of public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.