When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.