Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.