Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.
There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"
A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.