It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.