The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.