There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

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

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

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.