Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.