Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.

The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.