Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

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

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

We experience new culture with every journey.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.

The best cure for sadness is doing something.

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

If we have trouble hearing Him, He will faithfully work in our lives until we are pointed in the direction He wants us to go.

The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.