Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.
A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.