There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try