“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.”

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.”

“It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”

“Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing—a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.”

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ”