It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

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

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