Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet.
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
The long dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the Devil.