No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.
The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.