Wit Is Often Its Own Worst Enemy.

The Human Heart, At Whatever Age, Opens To The Heart That Opens In Return.

Those Who Have Lived In A House With Spoiled Children Must Have A Lively Recollection Of The Degree Of Torment They Can Inflict Upon All Who Are Within Sight Or Hearing.

Every Man Who Takes A Part In Politics, Especially In Times When Parties Run High, Must Expect To Be Abused; They Must Bear It; And Their Friends Must Learn To Bear It For Them.

The Everlasting Quotation-lover Dotes On The Husks Of Learning.

I ... Practiced All The Arts Of Apology, Evasion, And Invisibility, To Which Procrastinators Must Sooner Or Later Be Reduced.