Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

Cynicism has its own zealots.