The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.
Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.
Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.