There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

Silence is a still noise.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

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