We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
My head rang like a gong.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
All movements go too far.