Let us honour if we can
The vertical man
Though we value none
But the horizontal one.

W. H. Auden, Frontspiece to Poems 1927-1931

Mistakes

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

E. Hubbard
VBA p. 59

Happiness

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

La Rochefoucauld
VBA p. 20