Forethought Spares Afterthought.

To Take Offence Is A Great Folly, And To Give Offence Is A Great Folly - I Know Not Which Is The Greater.

... If Fiction Does Not Show Us A Better Life Than Reality, What Is The Good Of It?

The Fruit Of Life Is Experience, Not Happiness.

... Trouble Of All Kinds Is Voluble, And Has Plenty Of Words, But Happiness Was Never Written Down.

It Is Little Men Know Of Women; Their Smiles And Their Tears Alike Are Seldom What They Seem.