Those who go secretly, go evilly; and foul birds love to fly at night. - H. Rider Haggard

Oh! it is a strange world, full of jest to those who can see the strings that work it.

He is an extraordinary animal is the house fly. Go where you will you find him, and so it must have been always. I have seen him enclosed in amber, which is, I was told, quite half a million years old, looking exactly like his descendant of to-day, and I have little doubt but that when the last man lies dying on the earth he will be buzzing round – if this event should happen to occur in summer – watching for an opportunity to settle on his nose.

[T]he law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.