Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?
Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.
Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.
The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.
The sheen of ocean gleams on the blue fish-plate.