When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.