The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.
The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.