The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment. It is not possible that the idle tramp is as contented as the farmers along the road who own their own farms, and whose credit is good at the bank in town. When the tramps get together at night, they abuse the farmers, but do not get as much satisfaction out of it as do the farmers who abuse the tramps. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

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

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

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.