If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

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

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.