The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

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

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.