Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

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.

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.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.