Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.