Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.