Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid in full.

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.