To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.
I may forget my dignity, but you may not.
Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.
Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.