The engine died and then the doors swung open.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.