Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.