Qotd

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together...

How many things I can do without!

You’ve probably already grasped the basic legalistic drawback to precrime methodology. We’re taking in individuals who have broken no law.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy.

O King, abundant are yes-men, always pleasant spoken,Rare are the speakers and listeners of the unpleasant but medicinal.

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline — training — is about.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times.

To write one’s memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.