"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."

"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."

"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."

"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly."

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

"Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging."

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

"A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by."

"Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach."

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them."

"Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control."

"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die."