A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
Short accounts make long friends.
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.