Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

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

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

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.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.