The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.