If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

When you catch an adjective, kill it.