If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.

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.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.