Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.