Common sense is very uncommon.
A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.