Samuel Butler

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.