Silence never makes any blunders.

Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

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

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.