Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.