Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
It is better to support schools than jails.