A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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.