The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.