A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.