A common enemy makes former enemies friends.
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Self and Others
Our rights extend only to the property line of our own life.
Celebrities enjoy every luxury except solitude.
Our small feats appear huge through the microscope of our vanity.
A bachelor's life resembles a widower's.
The pleasure of talking to oneself: who else besides me always and unfailingly desires to discuss exactly the same subjects I do?
Faces are like assumptions: we see with them, we do not see them.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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