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.

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.