An honest man's the noblest work of God.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
The brave venture anything.
Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do - well, that's memoirs.
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
Success is dependent on effort.