Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.