To take the world as one finds it

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"