We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.
In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.