An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.