Wine Is A Civilizing Agent.

Socrates Called Himself A Midwife Of Ideas. A Great Book Is Often Such A Midwife, Delivering To Full Existence What Has Been Coiled Like An Embryo In The Dark, Silent Depths Of The Brain.

The Tantrums Of Cloth-headed Celluloid Idols Are Deemed Fit For Grown-up Conversation, While Silence Settles Over Such A Truly Important Matter As Food.

One's First Book, Kiss, Home Run Is Always The Best.

We Are All Citizens Of History.

The Drinking Of Wine Seems To Me To Have A Moral Edge Over Many Pleasures And Hobbies In That It Promotes Love Of One's Neighbor.