 Never ask a bore a question. |
| An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. |
| Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day. |
| Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. |
| Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts. |
| The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small. |
| Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered. |
| The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. |
| Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. |
| Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. |
| Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. |
| Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. |
| The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head. |
| The only peace is being out of earshot. |
| Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person. |
| Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. |
| We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. |
| When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion. |
| A blocked path also offers guidance. |
| Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. |
