There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

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

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.