Successful innovations become conventions.
One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.
In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.
Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.