Wine is a civilizing agent.
One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
If you want to feel at home, stay home.
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.