Youth has a natural horror of age, and one gradually learns to reciprocate.
May 302018
May 292018
The young are in a hurry, and the old have little time.
May 282018
Almost everyone believes the world is filled with people who do evil on purpose; but not himself, and not anyone he knows.
May 252018
You can have loyal subordinates, or competent ones.
May 242018
A lot of what we refrain from doing is not wrong, or undesirable, but just too much trouble to explain.
May 232018
Struggle with, v. Wallow in.
May 222018
The point of a special day for airing grievances is that all the other days are not.
May 212018
The dissolute and profligate can always be depended on to preach sobriety and thrift; today it is the sober and thrifty who refuse to do so.
May 182018
It is more pleasant to be told that one has done a brilliant thing than that one is a brilliant person, which implies an obligation to continue.
May 172018
To yearn for celebrity is to envy the animals when visiting the zoo.