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

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.