The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.