His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."