To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.