BILLINGS

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

If a man is right he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

The more humble a man is before God, the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.