If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

I said nothing of the sort.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.