Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.
Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.