The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham.
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.
Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.