A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I didn't even breathe.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!