Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.