Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.