The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. - Charles Dudley Warner

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
value.

This is really life, this is doing something in the world, and in the presence of it you can see why the creators of it regard your world, which seemed to you so important, the world whose business is the evolution and expression of thought and emotion, as insignificant.