You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.
Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.
When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.