Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.
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The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and ...
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
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