Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.