Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.
Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.
The party out of office becomes the articulate one.
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.