A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

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

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

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

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.

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