The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Self-analysis always cheats.

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.