A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.