In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
Man is nature's sole mistake.
Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
Things are seldom what they seem.
As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."