Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.