Most Human Beings Are Quite Likable If

A Boy In Love Is Not Mainly A Calf But A Poet.

We Forget That Socrates Was Famed For Wisdom Not Because He Was Omniscient But Because He Realized At The Age Of Seventy That He Still Knew Nothing.

It Is Almost Impossible To Remember How Tragic A Place The World Is When One Is Playing Golf.

When One Has Praised Turgenev, However, For The Beauty Of His Character And The Beautiful Truth Of His Art, One Remembers That He, Too, Was Human And Therefore Less Than Perfect. His Chief Failing Was, Perhaps, That Of All The Great Artists, He Was The Most Lacking In Exuberance. That Is Why He Began To Be Scorned In A World Which Rated Exuberance Higher Than Beauty Or Love Or Pity.

It Is The Custom When Praising A Russian Writer To Do So At The Expense Of All Other Russian Writers.