Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.