Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.
Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.
Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.