In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name, ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
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I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.
The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.