Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - Wisdom in Small Doses.

A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage