Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.
Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.