That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.