You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.