The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.