Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.
The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer he has already tried every other means of escape.
A hole is nothing at all but you can break your neck in it.
An Englishman thinks seated a Frenchman standing an American pacing an Irishman afterward.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.