Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.