Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.