The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

Jokes are unanswerable objections.