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

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.