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
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it?and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again?and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little 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.
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them 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.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
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 a body want to go and do that very thing.
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.