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

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

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

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.