“Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.”
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.