The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.