I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words. As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got. One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. | 
