Laughter is higher than all pain.

Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

History: gossip well told.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?