“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.”

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.

The dog is the god of frolic.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.

I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn’t offend anybody.

Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

Say yes to everything. ‘You want me to buy you some food?’ Yes. ‘You want me to buy you a car?’ Yes.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.