A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.