When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

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

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do.

Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.