Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.