“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
Best“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
Good“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
Best“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
Great“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”
Good“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
Marriage“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
Life“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”
Art“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
Truth“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
Politics“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
Love“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Great“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Courage“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
Travel“The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
Good“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”
Money“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
Friendship“There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.”
Change“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
Good“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Great“Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.”
Wisdom“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
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