I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
