Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

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

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.