Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus’s daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves.
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
Chastity – you can carry it too far.
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
Modesty died when clothes were born.
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.