The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.