He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

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.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.