Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.
No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.
Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.
Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.
The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.
Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.
If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.
The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.
We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.
A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.
The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"
A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.
The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.
You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.
Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.
Humility is pride in God.
You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.
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