History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.