Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.
As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.
The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.