Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.