Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
History is more or less bunk.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.