What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.