The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.