 It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. |
