A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.
People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.