Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

We learn nothing by being right.

Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.