One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
Jean de la BruyereFrom time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.
Jean de la BruyereEverything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
Jean de la Bruyere