Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.

There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.