The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.