There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

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.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

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

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.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.