A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.