By an unfailing coincidence, the man who wrongs us is a villain, and the man who does us a kindness is a saint. - Henry S. Haskins

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

The art of a pedant is to divert his pupils from noticing the smallness of his puddle, and to make them attribute his apparent size to his being a really big toad.

Make a party over your negative thoughts, assuring them that they are the safest, the most cautious, company you have ever kept. At first they will swallow your flattery, but then suddenly, stricken with shame, and knowing themselves for the impostors they are, out and off they will go.