The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.
There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.