If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
That art is best which suggests most.
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.