"She had run down and down and down, and had at last reached a point where medicines no longer had any helpful effect …"

"When in doubt, tell the truth."

"It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right."

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."

"The truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Con…"

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the …"

"There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Fai…"

"A man may have no bad habits and have worse."