About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

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.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.