It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.