The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. – G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1905

Let me be thankful first, because I never was robbed before; second, because although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, although they took my all, it was not much; and fourthly, because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. – Matthew Henry (1662–1714)

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow