Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

It's so damned humiliating.