There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

What seems most likely is generally true.

Night thoughts aren't to be trusted.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.