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

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

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

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