Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.
Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.