Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.
Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.
Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!