Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.