No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Science is but an image of the truth.

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Always let losers have their words.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.