Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.