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