The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.