Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in 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.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Well done is better than well said.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.