Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant. - Robertson Davies

We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

New Money wore dinner suits, which it called tuxedos, and smoked big cigars from which it removed the band before lighting up — an unthinkable solecism, for

You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a superior nature. But you are no longer a young man; you are a youngish middle aged man, and it is time you found out that these spiritual athletics do not lead to wisdom.