The law is an ass, an idiot.

We are so very 'umble.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.