Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little and not those who know much who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age when the eager passions of youth are cooled and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows which are at morning and evening so large almost entirely disappear at midday.