There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.