The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
It is a shameful thing to insult a child.
I was born modest, but it didn't last.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
How slow and still the time did drag along.