"To a quick question, give a slow answer."

"By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible."

"He that jokes confesses."

"It is not enough to aim; you must hit."

"One may have good eyes and yet see nothing."

"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box."

"Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in."

"I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."

"Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed."

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same"

"Phonograph, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises."

"Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle."