To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.