Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

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

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

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.