Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.