Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.