Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.