Anything for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
And though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
A man must take the fat with the lean.
A good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
‘Tis love that makes the world go round!