Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,--that is, without employing the thoughts on the subject.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.