He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.