Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Apology - a desperate habit and one that is rarely cured.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
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!
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.
So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or ev...
The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug or throw themselves down before they always did they always will and if you don't make it of wood you must make it of words.
I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Youth fades love droops the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.