Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.