Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. People only see what they are prepared to see. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.