If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.
All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.