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.

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

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.

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.