Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Interest is the invention of Satan.
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.
There is a better way to do it - Find it!