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

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

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.

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

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

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.