Have the courage to act instead of react.

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

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

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.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.