It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

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

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.