The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.