Home is the best place to be sick in.
When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.
Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.