No Dignity Without Distance.

The Higher The Moral Tone, The More Suspect The Speaker.

Expensive Advertising Courts Us With Hints And Images. The Ordinary Kind Merely Says, Buy.

Since Events Are Not Metaphors, The Literal-minded Have A Certain Advantage In Dealing With Them.

Great Men Wait For The Right Moment To Abandon Caution. The Rest Of Us Abandon It When Impatience Becomes Too Much For Us.

If Folly Disappeared, Wit Would Starve.