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.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.

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

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.