For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.