We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.