Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

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

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

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.