"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.”

“Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.”

“We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.”

“The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.”

“Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.”

“Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".”

“An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.”

“Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.”

“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”