In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.
Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.