Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!