Whosoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.
There is this trouble about special providences—namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Remarks of Dr. Baldwin’s, concerning upstarts: We don’t care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
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.
Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young junebug than an old bird of paradise.