“To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and …” — William Hazlitt

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.