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.

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.