Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.
Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.
Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.
Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.
Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.
The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.