One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.