Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.
Man, not the earth, makes civilization.
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
All philanthropy. . . is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
No matter how you travel, it's still you going.
I couldn’t leave Total behind. ” “Total?” Iggy asked. “That’s what his card said,” Angel explained. “Totally a mutant dog who will probably turn on us and kill us in our sleep,” Fang said.
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.