Folks never learn from experience till it's too late to be of any use.

I don't see what the world was made for, for my part.

Everything goes topsy-turvy, and all sorts of ways except the right way.

I sometimes think 'tain't much use livin'!" "Oh, you'll feel better by and by, Rachel." "No, I shan't; I feel my health's declinin' every day.

I don't know how I can stand it when I have to go to the poorhouse." "We haven't gone there yet, Rachel." "No, but it's comin' soon.