The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.