No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.
The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.
Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.
A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.