Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.