It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.