A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.