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 greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

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.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.