It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness
Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.