A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.