No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
The old men know when an old man dies.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.