Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.