now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.