Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.
A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.