Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

A liar should have a good memory.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

Medicine for the dead is too late