"The falling drops at last will wear the stone."

"Such evil deeds could religion prompt."

"What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."

"If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets."

"My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light."

"'One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."

"You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her."

"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."

"The greatest delight is to mark one's enemy, prepare everything, avenge oneself thoroughly, and then go to sleep."