» Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
» Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
» Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
» A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
» The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
» I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
» In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
» It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
» Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
» There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.