Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.
It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.