Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

Runners are poor walkers.

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.