Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.
Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.