Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.