“Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.”

“Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.”

“Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.”

“Too many kings can ruin an army”

“Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure. Nothing would please the terrorists more than if we willingly give up some of our cherished liberties while defending ourselves from their threat.”

“Too many people’s careers are ruined by praise instead of propelled by criticism.”

“Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.”

“One ruins the mind with too much writing. — One rusts it by not writing at all.”

“And he hated himself and hated her, too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.”

“Too young for wife, too old for child, but the ripe age for comrade — and such a comrade, for there was a boy's gallantry in her eyes and something of a child's confident fearlessness.”