Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.