Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

A better idea than my own is to listen.

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.