As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people