Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.