If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that read more

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, read more

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; read more

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.