Tact is the art of being rude.
Oct 072014
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Oct 062014
People with little that they want to do find a lot that they have to do.
Sep 122014
Attention begets all virtue, distraction all vice.
Sep 102014
Carelessness is a mild form of malice.
Sep 082014
You attenuate your strengths by too assiduously correcting your defects.
Sep 052014
It is a grave misfortune to be stupid, yet we all laugh at the stupidity of others without a twinge of guilt.
Aug 292014
Courage! You have less to lose than you think.
Aug 262014
A man can adapt to nearly anything, but only two or three times.
Aug 222014
It is a kind of madness, never to sicken at the sound of your own voice.
Aug 132014
Too bourgeois is an irritant, not bourgeois enough a disaster.