Men Often Bear Little Grievances With Less

If You Wish Me Well, Do Not Stand Pitying Me, But Lend Me Some Succour As Fast As You Can; For Pity Is But Cold Comfort When One Is Up To The Chin In Water, And Within A Hair's Breadth Of Starving Or Drowning.

Obscurity Often Brings Safety.

If You Had Half As Much Brains As You Have Beard, You Would Have Looked Before You Leaped.

We Can Easily Represent Things As We Wish Them To Be.

He Who Plots To Hurt Others Often Hurts Himself.