Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.