There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.