What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.
Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.