If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell."

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

"The smaller the head, the bigger the dream."

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.