There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.