The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.

The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.