Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.