Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.