It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Cunning is a short blanket, if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

Our sins are like a carousel where the same decorated dogs, pigs, and goats, ridden by the foolish, come around again and again until the machine wears out.

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

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation

An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an Irishman, afterward.

A politician is like a quicksilver, if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

If you are without an enemy in the world, you may be a lamb or an ass, but you are not a man.

A man’s life is like a well, not like a snake – it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.