Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

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

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.