Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.