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

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.

Silence is a still noise.

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.