There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happinesses to the unhappy.
The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.
The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
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 fact that man knows right from wrong proves his INTELLECTUAL superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can DO wrong proves his MORAL inferiority to any creature that CANNOT.
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.