A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.