The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness. Reflections on Literature and Morality

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. Never Give In!

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies. Animal Farm