It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.