Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

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.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.