Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.