Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.