They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.