Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.
The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.
Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.