Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

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

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

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