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.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.