We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.
When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.
Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.