Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget i… - Samuel Butler

Always eat grapes downwards — that is, always eat the best grape first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last.

As a matter of course, the basis on which he decided that duty could alone rest was one that afforded no standing-room for many of the old-established habits of the people. These, he assured them, were all wrong, and whenever any one ventured to differ from him, he referred the matter to the unseen power with which he alone was in direct communication, and the unseen power invariably assured him that he was right.

God's merits are so transcendent that it is not surprising his faults should be in reasonable proportion.