Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.
In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.
Swindlers are notoriously gullible.
Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.
Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.