Laughter means sympathy.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.