She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.