It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.