Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven... →
Saint Augustine
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius
Anger cannot be dishonest.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.