Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.