If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.