Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.

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

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.