It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

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.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.