Do unto yourself as your Neighbours do unto Themselves and look Pleasant.
A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
Mark Twain said (particularly about Pink Marsh): "I have been reading him again, and my admiration overflows all limits. ... How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand."
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.