It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right .

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact .