Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records. – William Arthur Ward

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. – Alexis de Tocqueville