Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

Every writer is an iron-monger that melts down old junk into new steel.

The virtues are a chain; and, if you break one link, the whole chain is useless.

When the Devil is not fishing he is mending his nets.

Virtue, like beauty, is commonly only skin deep.

The most dangerous savages live in cities.

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.

Many writers are there that paint a stolen jade and sell it for a colt at the nearest fair.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

High failure is better than low success.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

Some men are like a church-organ--you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box--they have four or five thin jingles.

We are footprints of our ancestors in the trail of time.

Most of us make an eight-day clock of our religion: we wind it up on Sunday morning and pay no heed to it for the rest of the week.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

Hope is the shadow of faith.

Men that believe only what they understand can write their creed on a postage stamp.

Patience has tender feet.

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.

Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.

Conscience after an evil act is like pulling stockings over muddy boots.

A critic is an old maid that writes instructions to you concerning the rearing of your own children.

No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.

Some minds are so unclothed that they are indecent.

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

Those that angle in the waters of society catch only carps.

Better a bald head than none at all.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

Righteous indignation commonly becomes unrighteous.

The habit of virtue is a fire-drill in a school which leads confused children through smoke to safety.

Facts are carpet-tacks under the pneumatic tires of theory.

The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.

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