Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.