Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.
Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?