It hadn't shocked the old woman, not much. She had got past being shocked early in life. - Sherwood Anderson

Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.

Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned. Small chickens, just setting out on the journey of life, look so bright and alert and they are in fact so dreadfully stupid. They are so much like people they mix one up in one's judgments of life.

Io sono uno che ama e non ho trovato la cosa da amare.