The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else.
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Man is the only man that blushes. Or needs to.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how title we think of the other person.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
When in doubt tell the truth.
It is better to deserve honors and not have then than to have them and not deserve them.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Morals are an acquirement like music, like a foreign language like piety, poker, paralysis no man is born with them.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make body want to go and do that very thing.
The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as successful near home.
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untax.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
There is an old time toast which is golden for its beauty."When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend."
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be --a Christian.
Obscurity and a competence--that is the life that is best worth living.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
