A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.