An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
The fair sex is your department.
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.