Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.