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.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

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.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.