Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. Lady Duff-Gordon

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Latin Proverb

My kittens look at me like little angels, and always after doing something especially devilish. Jamie Ann Hunt

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

This is the short and the long of it. William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, Act 2 scene 2

To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is Victor Hugo

I dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, Act 1 scene 2

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives