The course of true anything never does run smooth.
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.