Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.