To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – Walter Pater
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. – Walter Pater

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – Walter Pater
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. – Walter Pater
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. – Walter Pater
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. – Walter Pater
Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. – Anthony Holden