Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.