One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.