Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
All the world's a cage.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
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.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.