I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two "Eds" are better than one.
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.
There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.
By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.
Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.