of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.