One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.