There is dumb happiness, as well as dumb misery, and one ought to aim, not at more of the former or less of the latter, but at a better class of both.
Oct 042019
Oct 032019
Clever lies are as common as clever truths are rare.
Oct 022019
Confession is vanity’s last resort.
Oct 012019
It’s not usually the truth that’s being shoved down your throat.
Sep 302019
“We” means neither me nor thee.
Sep 272019
History is lenient with the vicious and powerful victims of tyrants still more vicious and powerful.
Sep 262019
It isn’t tolerance unless you disapprove.
Sep 252019
It is less important, now, to have something to say than someone to listen.
Sep 242019
Ignorance, cultivated with sufficient rigor, is bliss.
Sep 232019
In hell the default setting is always On.