We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.