Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.
Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall, they never fail to rise again.
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.
Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first, – to be intelligently simple.
Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway.
Fun is a sugar-coated physic.
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.
Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don’t understand.
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.
The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.