Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Satire is born of the cities it denounces.

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.