For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.