Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.

There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.