Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

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

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

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