Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.