Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.