Imaginary evils are incurable

Exceptions dont always prove old rules, sometimes they presage a new one.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Exceptions don ‘ t always prove old rules, sometimes they presage a new one.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don’t know how to make use of the old ones.

You can’t trust the ‘specials’ like the old time ‘coppers’ when you can’t find your way home.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first strike.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.

We don’t believe in rheumatism or true love until we have been attacked by them.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible

Conquer, but don’t triumph.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.