One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.