The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.