Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better

There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep

Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to have an early start

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising

The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone