If you have a thrust to make at your friend’s expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven’t any myself, but I do like it in others.
Every man’s religion is his own, and nobody else’s business.
Impossible desires are the height of unreason.
Fact is stranger than fiction.
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.
Lawyers are like spiders, they’ve eat up all the flies, and I guess they’ll have to eat each other soon.
Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature’s laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.
An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
A temperate anger has virtue in it.
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
Nature’s bank-dividends.
Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
Ceremony is all backbone.
Self-possession is the backbone of authority.