Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

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

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

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.