How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.