In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.