Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.

In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

Many gloat over their own troubles.