The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.