Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.
Perseverance is king.
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.