To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Enough is ever-receding.
Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.