Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.
A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.