A temperate anger has virtue in it.
Life ain't all beer and skittles.
Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.