The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.