Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.