Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that the cow will back up to them.

If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded - and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

A miracle is an event described by those to whom it was told by people who did not see it.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth -often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Wisdom must go with sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child - on a fieldmouse instead of a human soul.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

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