I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.