The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.