The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.