Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.
Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Health can be squandered, but not stored up.
My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.