Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.