Great people create great acts of kindness.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

As ill-luck would have it.