We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.