Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.