My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.
One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.