Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.