The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.