There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.