Silence is a still noise.

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

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

Truth is the edict of God.

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.