I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Love truth, and pardon error.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.