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

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

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

A poem is no place for an idea.

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

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