"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

"Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully."

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg."

"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."

"Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity."

"GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone."

"More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality."

"Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen."

"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."