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.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.
Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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