Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.