If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

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

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

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.