Human experience is usually paradoxical.
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
One can say everything best over a meal.
To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.