“The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.”
“When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.”
“For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.”
“Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.”
“Where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise.- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”
“Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.”