Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.