Fact is stranger than fiction.
Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.