Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.