... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.