Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.
It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.
It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.