A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and clean; but, by their leaves, had we the same literature he would find our brains as fruitful as our bodies.
When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.
When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.
In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.
Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.
The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.
I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.
