The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.