DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.