When people say clearly something, that means there’s a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren’t clear at all.
To the kind of men who seek power, gratitude has very poor keeping qualities.
The young man is also an idealist. He has yet to find out that what’s in the public interest is not what the public is interested in.
The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. This is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs. It’s also wrong. There’s a fifth element, and generally it’s called Surprise.
The mountains of madness have many little plateaus of sanity.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds.
If stress were food, he’d succeeded in turning his life into porridge.
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
