No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

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

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.