By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.
They did not know it was impossible so they did it
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.