Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

Names are not always what they seem.