Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.
If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.
I wish I were braver, although I try.
Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
