One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

God is good, there is no devil but fear.