Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

The sewer is the conscience of the city.

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.