Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.