There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.