Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.