Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.
The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.
nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.