Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.