They say love's like the measles-all the worst when it comes late in life.

They say love's like the measles--all the worse when it comes late in life.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one, it flies as well as creeps.

To the true teacher, time's hour-glass should still run gold-dust.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it’s ten to one if they hang long together.

Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary.

As for the brandy, “nothing extenuate”; and the water, put nought in in malice.

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet’s wand, it changes to a snake.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world’s slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.