When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.