Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.