Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.