Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."
A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.
If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.
When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.
A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country
If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.
Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.
No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.
