Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.