Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

A secret is something I tell to only one person at a time.

Be careful of your thoughts-they may break into words at any time.

When you tell the truth you do not have to remember what you said.

Death cancels everything but truth.

Never try to teach a pig to sing... it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

At twenty we worry about what others think of us; at forty we don't care about what others think of us; at sixty we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all.

There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women that are unlovable.

Leigh Hunt was probably the only man in the world who, if he saw something yellow in the distance and thought it was a buttercup, would be disappointed if he found it was only a guinea.