Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.