Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.
When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.