The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.