Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

German diligence is actually endurance.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.