A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

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

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

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.