The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.