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.

The real yellow peril: Gold.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment