When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

A poem is no place for an idea.

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.