Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.