Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, kindness.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Who never doubted never half believed. Where doubt is there truth is - it is her shadow.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

The ode lives upon the ideal the epic upon the grandiose the drama upon the real.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

If you assume these 17 000 guys go away and never come back it'd make a difference. But if they come back in two weeks rather than one week I don't see it making a difference. They don't even have a strike fund. I'm a long way from getting worried.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged, life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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