Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.