Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
Real divorce takes place without a decree.
When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.
When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.