"The most learned are often the most narrow minded." — 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.

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.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.