There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.