Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
History is a bucket of ashes.
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.