Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

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

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

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

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

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