If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.