If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.
Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.
Familiarity breeds contentment.
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.