This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.
Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.
Never let your education interfere with your learning.
I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to live in Europe and now I have lost Jean. How poor I am, who was once so r...
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious
When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage.