A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.