I'd Give All The Wealth

If You Want To Inspire Confidence, Give Plenty Of Statistics. It Does Not Matter That They Should Be Accurate, Or Even Intelligible, As Long As There Is Enough Of Them.

As A General Rule, Do Not Kick The Shins Of The Opposite Gentleman Under The Table, If Personally Unaquainted With Him; Your Pleasantry Is Liable To Be Misunderstood--a Circumstance At All Times Unpleasant.

This Was Charming, No Doubt; But They Shortly Found Out That The Captain They Trusted So Well Had Only One Notion For Crossing The Ocean, And That Was To Tingle His Bell.

Be What You Would Seem To Be - Or, If You'd Like It Put More Simply - Never Imagine Yourself Not To Be Otherwise Than What It Might Appear To Others That What You Were Or Might Have Been Was Not Otherwise Than What You Had Been Would Have Appeared To Them To Be Otherwise.

She's Stark Raving Mad!