It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

getting soaked (as in cheated).

O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

A friend in need is a pest.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell; My mistress made it one upon my cheek: She is so hot because the meat is cold; The meat is cold because you come not home; You come not home because you have no stomach; You have no stomach, having broke your fast; But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray, Are penitent for your default to-day.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous .

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart -- this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal. -Mary Baker Eddy.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.