When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.
As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool
When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
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.