Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.
Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.
Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.
The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.