Age: I go slower as time goes faster.
Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.
I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.
A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.