Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people