A woman can earn her pardon for a good year of disobedience by a single adroit submission. - Robert Louis Stevenson

I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him.

"Now, Bill, sit where you are," said the beggar. "If I can't see, I can hear a finger stirring. Business is business. Hold out your right hand. Boy, take his right hand by the wrist and bring it near my right."
We both obeyed him to the letter, and I saw him pass something from the hollow of the hand that held his stick into the palm of the captain's, which closed upon it instantly.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.