What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.
Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.