I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.