“Gossip’s a nasty thing, but it’s sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.”

Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

Americans love to read about violence.

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it’s shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn’t he? When a son cuts somebody’s throat the mother only sees it’s possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil – and she’s entirely right about that!

Gossip is the Devil’s radio.

Some outlets shouldn’t even call themselves news providers; they’re just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

I don’t really listen to any of the gossip.

A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals. People on a path of purpose don’t have time for drama.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Some women collect gossip, the way other collect jewelry.

Not everyone repeats gossip. Everyone improves upon it.