Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.
Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.
All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.