Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.