For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.