Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.