Plurality of languages: [. . . ] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.
Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.
Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.
I think every time you get your heart broken, there's a little piece of it that chips away, and I don't think you ever get that piece back. But I think you're able to bandage it with time and with new people and other things that make you happy.