He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
It's so damned humiliating.
There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.