Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.