After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.
My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.
Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.