What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Books that have become classics—books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal—always remind me of venerable colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

We weep when we are born, not when we die!

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.