Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.