A form of self-delusion.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.