Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

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

One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.