I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of
Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us
There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.