If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.