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

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

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.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.