What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.

In suffering a man must search for his Maker.

Creativity is magic in the making.

Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.

If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

God is not a taker. God is a giver.

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.