Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.