Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.