Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

Common sense is very uncommon.

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.