A verbal contract isn t worth the paper it s written on. Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
Experience only teaches the teachable.
Glory s fleeting, but obscurity is forever. He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience trecherous, judgment difficult. No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.