"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man"
"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it"
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know"
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894"