Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.

Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.