The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
Make your vacation your vocation.
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.