It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.