Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.