Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass