Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
rouble creates a capacity to handle it.
A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything kno...
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating...
Systems die instincts remain.
Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
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