Fact is stranger than fiction.
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.