“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ”

“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply”

“There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.”

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”

“Genius after all ain't anything more then elegant common sense.”

“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”