Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.
Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.