Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Patience has tender feet.

The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.