Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Our lives teach us who we are.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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?
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.