A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

All money is a matter of belief.

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit

The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does express as Good in every person and every situation.

Just go on..and faith will soon return.

I could see he was having problems taking my punches. I had no problem taking his.

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.