About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."
How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.