It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.