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.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.