I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.
You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.