Some people never have anything except ideals.
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.