Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.