We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?