There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.