Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.
It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.