Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.

One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.