The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Friends are generally of the same sex for when men and women agree it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to discourage them from ambitious attempts and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

Politicians like generals have a tendency to fight the last war.

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.