Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.