It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.