I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Biography is the best form of history.

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

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