I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.