Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.