Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

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.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Biography is the best form of history.

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.