the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.
Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.
Life is short, break the rules.
This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.
Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first