It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

It's not what's going to happen, but who's coming.