There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.