In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.
Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.
Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.
Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you. Or, believe it, little snowflake, but know it won't make a bit of difference until after puberty. It's Newton's lost law: anything that makes you unique later will get your chocolate milk stolen and your eye blackened as a kid. Won't it, Sebastian? Oh, yes, it will, my little Mandarin Chinese-learning, Poe-reciting, high-top-wearing friend. God bless you, wherever you are.
If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.