Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."