Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.