Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops: man would have made him with an appetite for sand.
The spirit of wrath—not the words—is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.
The man with a new idea is a Crank till the idea succeeds.
Let us be grateful to Adam our benefactor. He cut us out of the “blessing” of idleness and won for us the “curse” of labor.
Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.