The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."