Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.