What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
Promise is the capacity for letting people down.
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.