Things are seldom what they seem.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
A policeman's lot is not a happy one
Life is a joke that's just begun.
Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?