If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.