Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.