The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.