Better a bald head than none at all.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.