A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.