If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.
Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor.
Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.
It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.
Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.
There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.
Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.
To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.
To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.
Today’s burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.
Tough times teach trust.
There’s something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don’t work for me, and I reckon it don’t work for only just the right kind.
Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.
There is no accounting for human beings.
No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.
A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.
That is their way, those plagues, those scientists – peg, peg, peg – dig, dig, dig – plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.
Cooper’s art has some defects. In one place in ‘Deerslayer,’ and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.