The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
