Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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