Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

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.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.