The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.

We have nine children now - half girls and half boys.

If Christ were here today, there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

All say 'How hard it is to have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

First, get the facts, then you can distort them at your leisure.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.