True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.