Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.
Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.