No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example .

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.