La vida es el arte de sacar conclusiones suficientes a partir de datos insuficientes. - Samuel Butler

This is why the clergyman is so often called a vicar — he being the person whose vicarious goodness is to stand for that of those entrusted to his charge.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

I know not why, but all the noblest arts hold in perfection but for a very little moment. They soon reach a height from which they begin to decline, and when they have begun to decline it is a pity that they cannot be knocked on the head; for an art is like a living organism — better dead than dying.