City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

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

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.