The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
People fail forward to success.