Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town? - Mark Twain

Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don't they will make you.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.