Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.