Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.