To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.