What Keeps The Democracy Alive At All

But It Is Not For The Perfect Vase Or The Polished Gem To Choose Their Owners.

There Is Only One Kind Of Shock Worse Than The Totally Unexpected: The Expected For Which One Has Refused To Prepare.

It Is Something, I Thought, When A King Can Put A Courtesan To The Blush.

Each Man In His Life Honors, And Imitates As Well As He Can, That God To Whose Choir He Belonged, While He Is Uncorrupted In His First Incarnation Here; And In The Fashion He Has Thus Learned, He Bears Himself To His Beloved As Well As To The Rest. So, Then, Each Chooses From Among The Beautiful A Love Conforming To His Kind, And Then, As If His Chosen Were His God, He Sets Him Up And Robes Him For Worship.

We Persians Have A Saying That One Should Deliberate Serious Matters First Drunk, Then Sober.