A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
The statesman shears the sheep, the politician skins them.
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
