A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

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.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.