The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.