Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Ittakes time to save time.

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

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

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