Secondrateness comes out of his pores like a fog. - Robertson Davies

You have to come to terms with yourself and your place in the scheme of life — something a good many people don't want to do. In the last century we have extended the normal life-span. Many seem to believe that this means we have extended the period when they should enjoy the things they enjoyed in youth. But I don't think they realize that we've also expanded the period of life when we can learn to think, feel, and experience the largeness and the splendor of life.

His reply had that clarity, objectivity and reasonableness which is possible only to advisers who have completely missed the point.

If you cling frantically to the good, how are you to find out what the good really is?