I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.