When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.