When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
— E. W. Howe
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
