Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.