Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.