Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed.
Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers the goods.
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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 biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them.
Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.